
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002336An Olive Oil Press
Provenance
François Renaud, Paris [Lugt suppl. 1042]. Sold by E. V. Thaw and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.
Exhibition history
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors," November 9, 1978-January 21, 1979, pp. 34-35, cat. 4 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, September-October 1987 (Installation). Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century" February 27-May 21, 2000, cat. 394; traveled to Houston, Tex., Museum of Fine Arts, June 17-September 17, 2000. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 102-103, cat. 43 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, 1986. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat. Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Hubert Robert", June 26 - October 2, 2016, pp. 93, 201, cat. 6 (ill.), cat. by Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Yuriko Jackall, et. al.
Publications
"Recent Acquisitions," Art Quarterly, 27 (1964), p. 218. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E9. Patrick-André Guerretta, Pierre Louis de la Rive (1753-1817): Vie et Oeuvre Peint (Geneva, 2002).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Hubert Robert / French, 1733-1808
- Date
- c. 1759
- Medium
- Red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
- Dimensions
- 28.9 × 36.6 cm (11 7/16 × 14 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund
- Accession no.
- 1963.810
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